Status Updates From An Essay on Metaphysics

"Ours is an age when people pride themselves on having abolished magic and pretend that they have no superstitions. But they have as many as ever. The difference is that they have lost the [magical] art of conquering them. So it is a special characteristic of modern European civilization that metaphysics is habitually frowned upon and the existence of absolute presuppositions denied. This habit is neurotic."

Ja, ik lees 'm al voor de derde keer. Maar wat wil je met passages als de volgende:

"In unscientific thinking our thoughts are coagulated into knots and tangles; we fish up a thought out of our minds like an anchor foul of its own cable, hanging upside-down and draped in seaweed with shellfish sticking to it, and dump the whole thing on deck quite pleased with ourselves for having got it up at all."

Tämä olkoon kaikille ilmoitus (pahoittelu?) että hyperleksiani on taas kierroksilla